Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)

Galería Misrachi, Mexico City
Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, Important Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, May 18, 1972, lot 8, illustrated

New York, The Center for Interamerican Relations, Rufino Tamayo: Works on Paper, May 16, 1979, no. 48

Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, Conaculta-INBA, Juan Carlos Pereda, et.al. Rufino Tamayo, Catalogue Raisonné, Prints 1925-1991, Mexico, 2004, no. 60, p. 80, lithograph of this work illustrated in color

This work is in generally very good condition. The medium appears stable overall. Tape remnants are present on the reverse and are visible from the verso of the sheet; this is most visible in each corner. The top edge of the paper is perferrated but this is inherent to the paper itself. There is rubbing to the black areas of the medium in the left quadrants; however, this appears to be intentional by the artist.
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Please note this is the original drawing for the lithograph Capítulo III which is part of the portfolio, Apocalypse de Saint Jean, first printed in 1959. The artist post-dated this work.